Neuroscientist Explains One Concept in 5 Levels of Difficulty | WIRED 

For a seven years old, she sounds way smarter than her age!

this gets weird when you realize it's their brains talking about themselves

Abigail is really smart. Look at her ability to summarise the discussion so accurately and effortlessly. Wow.

i really love how she actually talks to the kids in this and takes time to engage them. so many of the professionals in this series don't really try to inspire complex thoughts or critical thinking but kids have some of the coolest ideas and thoughts.

As someone who is currently pursuing their PhD in Neuroscience, the comments make me so happy that there is so much fascination with the brain. I firmly believe that in the next 50 years, we're really going to be pushing our understanding of it.

"The role of memory is much less about being accurate representation of the past and much more about being kind of a flexible compass into the future" - Dr. Shohamy This is so true and deep if you think about it.

I love how she doesn’t assume what people know and therefore she doesn’t patronise them when sharing her knowledge. Such great communication!

Abigail's a smart kid! She spoke so well and tbh I don'tt think I knew what was teal when I was her age

Let's Appreciate Wired for conducting some educational cool content instead of some random celebrity routine stuff.

watching the two at the end was so satisfying - they almost became giddy and their conversation was illuminating.

She explained all levels really well and was kind to everyone. Well done!

This is fascinating to me. Medical and neuroscience is still in kindergarten, relatively speaking. We are just now exploring the why's and how's of bone marrow being linked to schizophrenia, organ transplant recipients suddenly craving the foods their donor loved, how memory and time are connected, etc.

I recently learned that there is a huge amount of people who literally cannot picture images in their mind's eye. Like if I said, imagine a castle. You probably can create the image of a castle in your mind, right? Well, there are people who cant. At all. This fascinates me because I just always assumed everyone could do that. I think we should research this more and figure out why certain people cant do that.

I’m a journalism student, and I haven’t taken biology in 6 years. I held on through college student, and then I started to learn with the last two. THIS IS SO COOL. I forgot how much I love bio. I wanted to study it so badly when I was a child, but I don’t have the stomach to cut things up

So many intelligent people in this video. The child's, whose name I don't remember, speaking of memory, understanding of the topic really surprised me. Very interesting video!

my favorite part of this series is that by the end of level 5, you feel part of the conversation and pretend to be an expert. just nodding, saying "yes, i concur"

I love how excited the experts are when they talk to each other

As someone super interested in Cognitive Neuroscience, I absolutely loved listening to two experts discussing such an important and engaging topic. I hope that one day I can be having conversations like that.

its just so great to see that little girl understand and think abt everything that woman tells her, you can see on her face and in her eyes that she’s registering and shes already so smart , i loved that

every time ive seen a picture of the hippocampus or amygdala it was basically a 2d version, i didnt realise there was 2 of them.

That first kid is so smart! She thinks very logically 😯👏🏼

The little girl is so smart! I’m so impressed with her

It's crazy finding out how wrong your memories actually are, one thing I heard was that the more impactful memories are the most likely to be corrupted, that the more you pull out a memory the more likely it is to change over time. Dunno if that's true or not

Toward the end of the call it made me think of CBT: which helps us rewrite our beliefs that memory plays a role in shaping…

Very amazing to see in the eyes of almost everyone involved the fascination, and in the adults the passion driving these discussions. Attentive listening and equal sharing, just so beautiful to see

Wow! The college student, Emma, really was well researched…. I can imagine my questions being quite different when I was in college.. LOL!

Memory is key to identity formation.

The sad part is I won't remember any of this.

I’m so glad I listened until the end. When the expert talked about information network, brain as a dynamic circuitry/state machine, internal model of the brain reflecting and creating external model of the world, I feel like what I felt fuzzy about my field solidify a little more.

i’ve got a neurosci B.S. and stuff like this reminds me how cool the field is

You know what I find really interesting? How traumatic memories get lost in your subconscious, like your brain just pushes them away. Also just the process of thinking, overthinking, visualising scenarios in your head, it's all so fascinating :D

That kid's really good memory just reminds me that my hippocampus has been shrunk by recurring depression

The brain's ability to study itself is so fascinating

3:38 That little girl is smarter than me. I already forgot about the hippocampus.

This was fascinating and really well-edited. Thanks, Wired!

Very, very good conversations. I especially enjoyed the perspective on memory as a "compass" guiding future actions and affecting previous memories. I think a lot of that compass is driven by our fears, especially death. Fear of loneliness causing that compass to point toward long-term situations that give us community and help us fit in and driving us to act in ways that would eventually provide us with community, fear of running out of resources causing us to put ourselves in situations with more resources to prevent things like starvation and poverty, etc

First one of these I could actually follow through all 5 levels. Awesome!

Makes me want to learn a lot more about the pathways of our brain, great video and lovely people!

A memory is a symphony of signals of your experience as the event unfolds. Thats why repeating the event makes it a solid semantic memory as it not only depends on one neural pattern of one particular event but a series of implicit and explicit memory signals superimposing over one another

Idk what it is she just seems very lovely person and makes me feel safe and calm 💕🥰 and the way she talks to the little kids is soooo sweet and nice

I love these videos. Please keep making more!

I swear, I feel like kids lowkey are the most sensible, truly intellegent humans on the planet. It's like they haven't been hit with overloaded textbook explanations, which allow them not to over complicate anything! The simplicity in their thought process allows for those vast answers that take older humans much more time to capture.

by far one of the best series on RU-vid

This was excellent. Keep these coming Vice!

she is so beautiful, I was captivated by her the entire video and had to restart to watch it again, I wonder if she has ever taken a job also as an actor?? 🥺

Great discussions!

Abigail is a smart cookie!!! The fact that she remembered the word & use of the hippocampus is amazing!

Perfect timing! I’m currently taking a Memory and Cognition course.

i would love to look into how memory works for people who can’t create images within their minds and also what causes that to happen (aphantasia)

memory, "a flexible compass into the future...." that's the neatest thing about this video, is learning to think of how memory recalls the past, the present, and the future...

It's interesting, I've actually been thinking about "mental models" for the past couple weeks. What is it that leads people to develop certain mental models? Is it simply having lived a certain life and being treated a certain way by the people around them? Do innate biological predispositions play any role in the final mental model that a person may develop? I believe there is a finite truth to everything and that there are horrible as well as wonderful people in the world. What if we could fully map the mental models of the best people in the world, would it then be possible to replicate those mental models in future people, through education, through cultural engineering? These are questions I've been thinking about the past couple weeks.

The mental model that we have is very "reflective" of our previous experiences. I think that her particular insight there is worth more attention. We perceive through frequency, for the most part. Wavelengths of light are differing frequencies of the electromagnetic wave, sound is frequency of air pressure, etc. Then those frequencies are then somehow interpreted in context with templates that we have for different aggregations of frequencies we've experienced before. It's like we're self-organizing mirrors

That girl in college really make use of this great opportunity. She asked so many questions and it looks like she did study before coming to this discussion

This tickles my brain in such a good way.

My favorite WIRED series is backkkk

I've been listening to Stephen Fry's podcast on psychology and it's great to see even further into those ideas here!

Dr. Dani just blew my mind. she is sharp!

Abigail is very very smart.

This is a great video! I want to be a consultant neurologist when I am older.

Hello wired, can you guys make an architect explaining one thing in 5 levels? Thanks for all these videos

I love these videos so much - They're really easy to digest and they are great at dissolving these really complex and intricate topics into an understandable subject - This video was especially really interesting so thank you!

emma’s story made me cry that is so amazing

These and your Joe Navarro videos are the best out there!

That's it. I'm definitely doing a Phd in Neuroscience.

I watched the whole thing but I've forgotten what I've learned.

I love this women,smart, inclusive, and just plain awesome to listen

These shows are fantastic, perfect way to showcase why education matter, why science is real and matter, and why if you haven't studied to the point, where you know, you still have so much to learn. Then you haven't studied at all. The College student already blew me away. And the that most be made a quote "I think these imperfections, I interpret them as an indication that the role of memory, is much less about being accurate representation of the past, and much more about being kind of a flexible compass into the future".

Do neurodiversity next please!

I'm quite certain that the final one, the expert Dr. Bassett, is a time lord.

7:47 Daphna respected that reply.

One of my favorite channels ❤

Salute to all health professional.

I keep coming across people edging and pursuing the concept that memory is what makes us us. It was used a point of getting a way to store people on a hard drive tithe achieve some kind of immortality.

This is my favorite subject I love this

Worthwhile video for college students.

Now thats the coolest stuff I ever saw since long

love love love memory. Well Cognitive Psych and Neuro psych in general

The 7-year old child Abigail made some smart comments, but she also said that memories are stored in the hippocampus. The neuroscientist never actually said that, the child was adding things to her memory of the conversation so that it made more sense to her! When does detailed memory slide into confabulation?

This is amazing

Interesting because newer spatial therapy (described in The Body Keeps Score) is helping folks who have PTSD. I have so many questions to ask the experts at the end. Does a better memory make it easier or harder to make decisions? Or does it depend on the type of memory? Why do we remember remembering something? What can we learn about memory by looking at autism?

this was so good

How refreshing, after binging the physics videos, to finally understand what the expert's are talking about as a cognitive neuro/psych student :P

Please do literature next !!!!!

Expert level lady 👌

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The way these women are telling y’all to grow is astounding and I love it. ❤

please do this with the physics topics more

What the experts describe at the end makes me revisit Why I wanted to raise my son in Oslo. Oslo is a compact cosmopolitan city that's built by a community that's surrounded by and celebrates nature. Now that I had my son and I move to LA I can practically witness his growing interest towards cars 😭 The car culture is so strong that it's overriding whatever I attempt to teach him. If we were in a city like Oslo where cars are band in the city center I'm quite sure his interests and outlook would be much broader; perhaps he'd notice the architecture or how the people behave differently there versus here. Settings acts as a default map of societal and cultural norms; the setting here is not the model norm I want him to emulate 😟 But maybe printing pictures of fonder memories spent during hikes, museum visits and good natured social activities will help reinforce the "map" he'll circulate in his memory 🤞🏼 I can't shut out the world I'm surrounded by but I'll try my best to mold it back to better shape 🤷🏻🙏🏼😓

I need an explanation lower than the child level ngl 🤣

As a computer scientist, I'm very happy to hear about this evolving sense that cognition maintains a model of the world, and in turn the model guides behavior. Memory decorates the model with episodic information, we might say, and more incrementally reshapes it with semantic information. But the model isn't some passive thing. It's actively engaged in imagination and planning. And so it's a bit of an artificial distinction to talk separately about memory and imagination. One is presumed to be accurate and the other is presumed not, but in fact they have almost identical functionality, and may rely on the same architecture. This is also evolutionarily more plausible than to suppose that they originated independently.

That editing, in the beginning, when the 'expert' mouths "increasing Complexity" missed my head up.

My silly take on defining *"memory"* : It's your brain recording information and relaying it back in uniform with our previous encounters regarding modeled behavior.

Why was the seven year old basically just as smart as the teenager :00000

The last conversation makes it seem like they're talking to Variants of each other.

so cool

The hippocampus is also related to spatial memory.

Memories are in our minds in a global way.

My wife has aphantasia, I’m so curious to how she makes memories, especially making and recalling long term memories

27:08 --- is she talking about like, deduplication in storing memories?

So she’s a neuroscientist and dresses like that? Those boots Talk about being a badass 🤜🏻🤛🏻